Deaths in the 2010s

Maria Cole

1922–2012 (age 90)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Maria Cole (1922–2012), the Boston-born jazz singer who championed the music scene alongside her husband Nat King Cole...

Shirley M. Hufstedler

1925–2016 (age 91)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Denver-born jurist Shirley M. Hufstedler (1925–2016) served as the first U.S. Secretary of Education after a career on...

James Arness

1923–2011 (age 88)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

James Arness (1923–2011), the Minneapolis-born actor best known for his long-running lead role on Gunsmoke, is buried ...

Buddy Collette

1921–2010 (age 89)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Los Angeles-born Buddy Collette (1921–2010) was a pioneering jazz multi-instrumentalist and educator laid to rest at F...

George Barris

1925–2015 (age 90)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

George Barris (1925–2015), a Chicago-born photographer famed for capturing Hollywood icons and custom cars, is buried ...

Michu Meszaros

1939–2016 (age 77)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Hungarian-born performer Michu Meszaros (1939–2016) brought giant-hearted charm to roles in film and television as one...

Nancy Reagan

1921–2016 (age 95)

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Manhattan-born Nancy Reagan (1921–2016), an actress turned First Lady of the United States, is interred at the Ronald ...

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

1924–2017 (age 93)

Forest Home Cemetery

Nancy Oestreich Lurie (1924–2017), a Milwaukee-born anthropologist and advocate for Native American rights, is buried ...

William Edwin Self

1921–2010 (age 89)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

William Edwin Self (1921–2010) was an American film and television producer whose career included work on numerous mid...

William Melvin Kelley

1937–2017 (age 80)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017) was an American novelist and professor praised for his groundbreaking explorations o...

Diane Disney Miller

1933–2013 (age 80)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Diane Disney Miller (1933–2013) was an American philanthropist and preservationist who devoted herself to honoring her...

Newton Russell

1927–2013 (age 86)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Newton Russell (1927–2013) was an American politician who represented California in both the state assembly and senate...

Harry Redmond, Jr.

1909–2011 (age 102)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Harry Redmond Jr. (1909–2011) was an American special effects artist whose career spanned decades of Hollywood blockbu...

Jon Bunch

1970–2016 (age 46)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Jon Bunch (1970–2016) was an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the post-hardcore band Sense Fie...

Rose A. George

1946–2010 (age 64)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Rose A. George (1946–2010) was an Okrika-born individual laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald

1926–2013 (age 87)

Forest Home Cemetery

Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald (1926–2013) was an American business executive who led major firms and engaged in public servi...

Alphonse Mouzon

1948–2016 (age 68)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Alphonse Mouzon (1948–2016) was an American jazz fusion drummer and composer who helped define the sound of 1970s fusi...

Tyrus Wong

1910–2016 (age 106)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Tyrus Wong (1910–2016) was a Chinese-born American artist whose watercolor concept work shaped Walt Disney’s Bambi a...

Richard Bakalyan

1931–2015 (age 84)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Richard Bakalyan (1931–2015) was an American character actor who appeared in a variety of films and television shows f...

Jean Porter

1922–2018 (age 96)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Jean Porter (1922–2018) was an American film actress remembered for her light comedies and musicals of the 1940s.

Heather North

1945–2017 (age 72)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Heather North (1945–2017) was an American actress best known for voicing Daphne Blake on Scooby-Doo and appearing on t...

Reynaldo Rey

1940–2015 (age 75)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Reynaldo Rey (1940–2015) was an American comedian and character actor who performed across stage and screen for decade...

Harry Carey

1921–2012 (age 91)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Harry Carey was a Santa Clarita-based actor whose long career in film and television earned him lasting recognition befo...

Don Gordon

1926–2017 (age 91)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Don Gordon was a Los Angeles-born actor known for his tough-guy supporting roles in film and television who was buried a...

Jackie Collins

1937–2015 (age 78)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Jackie Collins was a Hampstead-born novelist whose glamorous, bestselling tales of Hollywood fame made her one of the wo...

Ralph Herbert Turner

1919–2014 (age 95)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Ralph Herbert Turner was an Effingham-born sociologist and educator whose academic contributions shaped American sociolo...

Kevin Jarre

1954–2011 (age 57)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Kevin Jarre was a Detroit-born screenwriter celebrated for his cinematic epics who was buried at Westwood Village Memori...

Stan Freberg

1926–2015 (age 89)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Stan Freberg was a Pasadena-born comedian, satirist, and voice actor whose pioneering work in advertising and entertainm...

Walter Grauman

1922–2015 (age 93)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Walter Grauman was a Milwaukee-born film and television director whose decades of work included series such as The Untou...

Jean Bartel

1923–2011 (age 88)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Jean Bartel was a Los Angeles-born beauty queen who became Miss America in 1943 and remained a public figure until her 2...

Barbara Orbison

1951–2011 (age 60)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Barbara Orbison was a Bielefeld-born music executive and advocate who stewarded Roy Orbison’s legacy before she was la...

Dee Caruso

1929–2012 (age 83)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Dee Caruso was a television writer and producer whose comedic work on classic series left a mark before his 2012 burial ...

Dick Enberg

1935–2017 (age 82)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Dick Enberg, an American sportscaster celebrated for his decades of play-by-play coverage across football, baseball, and...

Harry Lewis

1920–2013 (age 93)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Harry Lewis, the American actor and restaurateur who appeared in films like 'Key Largo' before co-founding the popular d...

Myra Wykes Rigor Selvadurai

1936–2012 (age 76)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Myra Wykes Rigor Selvadurai, who was born in 1936 and later buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, is remembered by those ...

Fran Harris-Tuchman

1915–2013 (age 98)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Fran Harris-Tuchman spent her life on the East Coast before passing in 2013 and finding her final resting place at Fores...

Kevin Hyunkyung Kim

1969–2014 (age 45)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Kevin Hyunkyung Kim, born in 1969 in South Korea, was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park after his passing in 2014.

Mary Elizabeth Gay

1919–2013 (age 94)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Mary Elizabeth Gay, who died in 2013, was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

James B. Taylor

1927–2016 (age 89)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

James B. Taylor, born in 1927, was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park after his death in 2016.

Robin Trocki

1956–2019 (age 63)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Robin Trocki, a Bayonne native born in 1956, was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park following her passing in 2019.

Maria Pruetzel

1921–2013 (age 92)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Maria Pruetzel, born in Pedernales in 1921, ended her life in 2013 and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Snooky Young

1919–2011 (age 92)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Snooky Young, the American jazz trumpeter whose work graced big bands and television orchestras, died in 2011 and was in...

Nipsey Hussle

1985–2019 (age 34)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Nipsey Hussle, the Crenshaw-born rapper, entrepreneur, and community activist, was killed in 2019 and buried at Forest L...

Al Ruscio

1924–2013 (age 89)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Al Ruscio, an actor with hundreds of screen credits, died in 2013 and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Roger Gimbel

1925–2011 (age 86)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Roger Gimbel, a television producer known for pioneering true-life drama specials, was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Pa...

Michelle Nicastro

1960–2010 (age 50)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Michelle Nicastro, the singer and actress known for voice work in Disney projects and stage performances, died in 2010 a...

Sybil Jason

1927–2011 (age 84)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Sybil Jason, a South African-born child actress who found fame in Hollywood in the 1930s, died in 2011 and was interred ...

Bob Hastings

1925–2014 (age 89)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Brooklyn-born Bob Hastings (1925-2014) was an American actor whose career spanned radio, television and soap operas incl...

Anna Gordy Gaye

1922–2014 (age 92)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Anna Gordy Gaye (1922-2014) was a Detroit-born music businesswoman and songwriter who co-founded Anna Records and played...

Bill Richmond

1921–2016 (age 95)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Bill Richmond (1921-2016) was an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on television comedies.